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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Literary Forms | |
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Drama | |
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Comedy | |
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High and low comedy | |
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Farce | |
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Romantic comedy | |
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Comedy of manners | |
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Stock characters | |
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Tragedy | |
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Classical tragedy | |
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Senecan tragedy | |
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Revenge tragedy | |
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Domestic tragedy | |
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Tragicomedy | |
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Theater of the Absurd | |
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Periods of Drama | |
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Ancient Greek | |
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Roman | |
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English medieval | |
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Morality plays | |
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Mystery plays | |
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Elizabethan and Jacobean | |
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Restoration and Eighteenth Century | |
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Modern | |
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Fiction | |
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Novel | |
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Novel of incident | |
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Novel of character | |
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Realistic novel | |
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Romance | |
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Bildungsroman | |
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Historical novel | |
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Epistolary novel | |
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Anrinovel | |
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Metafiction | |
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Short Story | |
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Novella | |
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Poetry | |
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Verse | |
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Epic Poetry | |
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Dramatic Poetry | |
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Lyric Poetry | |
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Specialized Forms | |
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Dramatic Monologue | |
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Exercise: Dramatic Monologue | |
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Epigram | |
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Aphorism | |
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Exercise: Epigram | |
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Satire | |
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Direct (formal) satire | |
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Indirect satire | |
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Horatian satire | |
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Juvenalian satire | |
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Exercise: Satire | |
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Figurative Language | |
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Figures of Thought (Tropes) | |
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Simile | |
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Metaphor | |
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Tenor | |
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Vehicle | |
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Mixed metaphor | |
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Extended metaphor | |
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Subtext | |
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Exercises: Similes and Metaphors | |
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Personification | |
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Allegory | |
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Pathetic fallacy | |
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Synecdoche | |
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Metonymy | |
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Exercise: Personification, Pathetic Fallacy, Synecdoche, and Metonymy | |
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Irony | |
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Verbal irony | |
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Sarcasm | |
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Structural irony | |
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Unreliable narrator | |
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Dramatic irony | |
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Tragic irony | |
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Cosmic irony | |
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Exercises: Irony | |
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Tropes Dependent on Contrasting Levels of Meaning | |
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Hyperbole | |
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Understatement | |
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Paradox | |
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Oxymoron | |
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Litotes | |
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Periphrasis | |
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Pun | |
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Equivoque | |
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Exercise: Tropes Dependent on Contrasting Levels of Meaning | |
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Figures of Speech (Schemes) | |
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Apostrophe | |
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Invocation | |
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Rhetorical Question | |
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Anaphora | |
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Antithesis | |
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Chiasmus | |
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Exercise: Figures of Speech (Schemes) | |
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Rhetorical Strategies | |
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Diction | |
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Formal vs. colloquial language | |
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Abstract vs. concrete language | |
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Poetic diction | |
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Allusion | |
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Analogy | |
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Exercises: Allusion, Analogy, and Diction | |
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Imagery | |
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Symbolism | |
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Atmosphere | |
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Exercises: Imagery, Symbolism, and Atmosphere | |
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Repetition | |
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Selection and Order of Details | |
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Epiphany | |
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Exercises: Repetition, Selection and Order of Details, and Epiphany | |
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Narration | |
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Voice | |
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Narrator | |
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Point of View | |
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First-Person | |
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Third-Person | |
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Third-person omniscient | |
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Intrusive narrator | |
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Objective narrator | |
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Narrator in drama | |
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Third-person limited | |
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Stream of consciousness | |
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Second-person | |
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Exercise: Point of View | |
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Characterization | |
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Flat Characters vs. Round Characters | |
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Showing vs. Telling | |
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Exercises: Characterization | |
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Roles in the Plot | |
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Protagonist | |
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Hero, heroine | |
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Antagonist | |
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Villain | |
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Foil | |
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Exercises: Roles | |
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Dialogue | |
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Verisimilitude | |
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Speech headings | |
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Stage directions | |
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Direct and indirect discourse | |
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Repartee | |
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Soliloquy | |
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Aside | |
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Exercise: Dialogue | |
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Setting | |
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Exercises: Setting | |
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Theme | |
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Tone | |
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Pathos | |
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Exercises: Theme and Tone | |
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Structure | |
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In Medias Res | |
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Exposition | |
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Flashback | |
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Narrative Pace | |
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Parenthetical Observation | |
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Subplot | |
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Shift in Style | |
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Exercises: Structure | |
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Syntax | |
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Independent clause | |
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Dependent clause | |
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Subject | |
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Simple subject | |
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Complete subject | |
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Predicate | |
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Simple predicate | |
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Complete predicate | |
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Direct object | |
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Indirect object | |
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Appositive | |
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Sentence Fragments | |
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Kinds of Sentences | |
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Simple sentence | |
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Compound sentence | |
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Coordinating conjunction | |
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Complex sentence | |
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Subordinate clause | |
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Means of Linkage | |
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Coordination | |
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Subordination | |
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Parallelism | |
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Syntactical Order | |
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Loose sentence (cumulative sentence) | |
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Periodic sentence | |
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Inversion | |
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Sentence Variety | |
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Exercises: Syntax | |
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Prosody | |
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Meter | |
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Quantitative meter | |
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Syllabic meter | |
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Stress | |
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Accentual meter | |
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Accentual-syllabic meter | |
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Foot | |
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Metrical Feet | |
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Iamb | |
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Anapest | |
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Trochee | |
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Dactyl | |
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Number of Feet in a Line | |
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Mowometer | |
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Dimeter | |
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Trimeter | |
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Tetrameter | |
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Pentameter | |
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Hexameter | |
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Heptameter | |
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Naming the Meter | |
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Iambic pentameter | |
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Trochaic trimeter | |
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Dactylic tetrameter | |
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Common Substitutions | |
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Spondee | |
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Catalexis | |
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Masculine and feminine endings | |
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Pauses within and between Lines of Verse | |
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End-stopped lines | |
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Enjambed lines | |
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Caesura | |
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Scansion | |
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Exercises: Meter | |
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Rhyme | |
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End Rhyme | |
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Double rhyme | |
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Triple rhyme | |
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Masculine rhyme | |
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Feminine rhyme | |
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Internal Rhyme | |
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Rhyme Scheme | |
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Perfect and Imperfect Rhyme | |
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Eye rhyme | |
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Half-rhyme (off-rhyme, slant rhyme, imperfect rhyme) | |
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Exercise: Rhyme | |
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Sound and Sound Patterns | |
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Alliteration | |
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Internal alliteration | |
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Consonance | |
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Assonance | |
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Onomatopoeia | |
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Exercises: Sound and Sound Patterns | |
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Poetic Forms | |
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Stanzas | |
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Couplet | |
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Heroic couplet | |
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Closed couplet | |
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Open couplet | |
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Tercet (Triplet) | |
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Terza rima | |
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Quatrain | |
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In Memoriam stanza | |
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Ballad meter (common meter) | |
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Refrain | |
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Sonnet | |
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Italian (Petrarchan) | |
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English (Shakespearean) | |
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Volta (turn) | |
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Sonnet sequence | |
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Curtal sonnet | |
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Blank Verse | |
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In poetry | |
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In drama | |
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Free Verse (Open Form Verse) | |
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Exercises: Poetic Forms | |
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MLA Style | |
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MLA In-Text Documentation | |
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Notes | |
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MLA List of Works Cited | |
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Sample Research Paper, MLA Style | |
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Permissions Acknowledgments | |
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Index of Terms | |